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  • Published: 28 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405983280
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $32.00

The Secret Thread




When a society darling sensationally sells off the entirety of her estate, it's a race against time to uncover her life secrets, before the auctioneer's hammer falls . . .

Mimi Caswell, style icon and interiors queen, is famously private, her life shrouded in mystery – until she sensationally announces she's quitting Manhattan for London, selling off her legendary estate, and staging a confessional my-life-in-objects auction.

Her new assistant, Jo, carries a secret of her own. As she unpicks Mimi’s glamorous life – and the stories behind each beautiful possession – she begins to expose what Mimi kept hidden: humble beginnings, an estranged sister, a shattering death at a country house party long ago. And a secret thread woven through it all – a far darker version of events that could upend everything.

Will Jo reveal the truth, before the auctioneer’s hammer falls?

  • Published: 28 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405983280
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $32.00

About the author

Eve Chase

Eve Chase writes bestselling, page-turning mysteries. Her novels include The Midnight Hour, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and Amazon no.1; The Glass House, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and Sunday Times bestseller; The Birdcage, The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde and Black Rabbit Hall. A winner of the Saint-Maur en Poche prize in Paris for Best Foreign Fiction and longlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award, her work has been translated into twenty languages. She lives in Oxford.

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Praise for The Secret Thread

Praise for The Midnight Hour

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A clever mystery that kept me gripped. I loved every word

Claire Douglas

Passionately emotional, dreamily written and dripping with boho glamour

Daily Mail

A book you want to race back to

Lisa Jewell

Moody, evocative, with a dream-like quality no other author can master

Gillian McAllister

Impossible to forget

Publishers Weekly, starred review

An exquisite stately home caught in the stultifying summer’s heat; ripe gardens and inviting river. First love and sexual awakenings. Glamorous interiors. A story waiting to be unravelled and understood. Chase’s numerous fans are in for a treat with a propulsive mystery, luminous writing, and characters who stayed with me. Quite possibly her best yet

Sarah Vaughan, <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Anatomy of a Scandal</i>

The Secret Thread is a stunning, evocative novel that pulls you into a hot summer on a grand country estate, in which the lives of two families become fatally entwined. Characters you feel like you know coupled with descriptions that are wonderfully lush and vivid meant I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. I had to find out what happened to them all

Araminta Hall

The novel really is proof that the treasures we hold onto are more than mementos of our past; they are also keys to our future. The Secret Thread is supremely clever, glittering with glamour, and exquisitely tied together with the most beautiful denouement. A stunning achievement. I loved it.

Amanda Geard

The Secret Thread is a tantalizing, evocative mystery. Eve Chase’s trademark gorgeous prose conjures up vivid, splendid settings, where upstairs, downstairs and family dramas play out to a tragic end. The truth lies in memories that must be unpicked decades later. Ambition, identity, love and family ties are the stakes. A stunning novel

Gilly Macmillan